Senior Purchasing Manager

Middlesbrough

£45-50k DOE

Jackson Hogg Procurement division are delighted to be working exclusively with a growing manufacturing organisation in Middlesbrough on the appointment of a Senior Purchasing Manager to join their team on a full-time and permanent basis.

This is an on-site based role offering £45-50k depending on experience. Working hours are Monday to Friday 07:00-15:30 with a 30 minute lunch. 

The position would come with great progression and development opportunities and would suit an individual who is a strong communicator and who would like to be an integral part of a real growth journey.

As Senior Purchasing Manager, you will lead a small team of purchasing and stores personnel. You will be responsible for managing a multi-million-pound annual material/sub-contract service budget, working closely with business-critical supply chain partners; leveraging value and robustness to ensure our ambitious growth plans can be achieved.

Your day-to-day, hands-on approach will support and strengthen the team, driving improvement in the purchasing and stores operations, providing internal customers and stakeholders with a "best-in-class" service.

The Role:

• You will have overall responsibility for driving supplier performance to deliver quality, cost and delivery requirements through effective leadership and management of people within your team and the supply base.
• Take ownership of critical supplier risks, implementing and managing pro-active supplier management processes and leading risk mitigation efforts.
• Providing pro-active, hands-on leadership to the purchasing and stores team. Setting and managing internal KPI’s to ensure "best-in-class" internal service provision.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the internal processes, implementing new/tightened procedures where you deem necessary.
• Negotiation and management of purchasing agreements with suppliers.
• Focus on delivering value to the business, with an eye for identifying and delivering cost-reduction where possible.
• Supporting the day-to-day transactional purchasing activity, deputising where necessary
• Develop and grow the team through effective leadership, internal coaching, and mentoring, supported with relevant external training where necessary.
• Managing on-site inventory, stock accuracy and a target to reduce value while maintaining on-time-delivery to the manufacturing team.

Person Requirements:

• MRP/ERP systems experience would be advantageous.
• Track record of providing leadership and team management
• Experience within procurement and a stores/warehouse environment
• Ideally from a steel/manufacturing background
• High level of organisation
• Knows what "best" looks like and seeks to continually improve yourself and your teams to achieve
• Attention to detail, able to work accurately under pressure
• Strong planning and analytical skills
• A people-person, able to build relationships internally and with external supply partners
• Proven negotiation skills, with a strong procurement background

This is an immediate requirement so early application is recommended.

For more information, please contact Gemma Yeadon - Principal Consultant | Procurement at Jackson Hogg.